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Courts & crime, 1910

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A Senate Candidate. Police Stop a Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 8

LITHGOW, Monday.--Mr. J. O. Moroney, secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of Australia, and Socialist candidate for the Senate, addressed an open-air meeting. The candidate…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court. Tuesday, January 4

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 8

Prothonotary's Office.--(Before the Chief Clerk.) Lawler v. Cooney, at 11 a.m…

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The Kulpara Shooting. Accused Before the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Monday.--Richard Fraser Lambden, with his head bandaged, appeared at Port Wakefield Police Court this morning charged with shooting with intent to kill his wife at…

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Police Courts. Monday, January 3. Pilfering on the Beach

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 8

John Hall (18), a carter, was charged at the Paddington Court with stealing a quantity of clothing and other articles, besides 5d in cash, the property of Alfred John Joyce, at Coogee Beach, on Sunday last. The…

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A Violent Wife. Assaults Her Husband in Court

The Star · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 6

The Redfern Police Court was turned into a miniature stadium to-day at the conclusion of a case in which Mabel King charged her husband, Robert King, 22, a…

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Murder at Tamworth. Man Kills His Wife. and Cuts His Throat. a Terrible Struggle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 7

TAMWORTH, Monday.--At about 2.15 o'clock this afternoon a dreadful murder took place at the residence of Mr. James Goodworth, Murray-street, which caused a great shock to the…

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Newcastle Crane Employees. Support Northern Congress. Organising the Police. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 7

The members of the Newcastle Crane Employees' Union called a neeting yesterday morning in order that their delegate should have au opportunity of giving a report on the…

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A Virago in Court. Dolly Kleeber's Second Performance. She Retires Foe Twelve Months

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

Dolly Kleeber the notorious woman made a sensation in the Central Police on Thursday last by flinging abuse and an pot at the bead of Sergeant Mankey, was again…

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Latest Edition. Another Bomb! the Strike Leaders. Court Grants Leave to Prosecute. Bowling, Hutton, Butler, and O'connor. Under Mr. Wade's New Act. Judge Heydon's Strong Comment

The Star · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

His Honor Judge Heydon sat specially in the Industrial Court this morning to hear an application for leave to prosecute Peter Bowling, D. Hutton, James Butler, and William…

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Charge of Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 14

In the Redfern Court, before Mr. John A. King, S.M., John J. Strange (28) was proceeded against on an information charging him with having, at Redfern, on December 27, assaulted Alexander Stewart, thereby…

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Another Assault on the Police. The Genial Lock-up Keeper Attacked

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M. disposed of the police business at Parramatta Court on Tuesday morning, when Geo. Dobbin (45) was fined 5s or 24 hours'…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 14

In the Redfern Court, before Mr. John A. lung, Richard Prior (21), dealer, and Alfred John Ceisman (23), laborer, were charged with having, on December 28, at Alexandria, assaulted James Mitchell. They…

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Charge of Assault and Robbery

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 9

At the Redfern Police Court, Alfred John Ceisman, 23, laborer, and Richard Prior, 21, dealer, were charged with assaulting James Mitchell, and robbing him of £4 17s 6d, a…

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A Pitiful Case. Magistrate's Sympathetic Advice

The Star · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

"Why cannot you young people live together peaceably?" asked Mr. Smithers, S.M., of a young wife who was proceeding against her husband for support at Balmain Police…

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Assaulting the Police

The Star · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

At the Balmain Police Court this morning Laurence O'Toole, 43, a clerk, was fined 40s or 21 days' gaol for assaulting Sergeant Slammond while in the execution of his duty…

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Parramatta Police Court. Monday, January 3. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.m.) Drunkenness

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

George Underwood (68) was fined, for drunkenness on the Windsor-road, 5s, or the rising of the Court. For indecent, behaviour, the same man…

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Known to the Police

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 1

"Downy" was a thorough rogue and vagabond, a printer by trade and a clever workman, but he never worked—not he! He would rather steal. Several times he…

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Murder of Mr. Jackson. Thirty Arrests Made

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 9

LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Thirty arrests have been made at Nasik, in Bombay, in connection with the murder of Collector Jackson…

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Lord Kitchener and the Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 8

Lord Kitchener's successes in the field have been credited to his faculty for mastering detail, and it is Interesting to record an incident which tends to prove that Lord Kitchener…

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Sedition in India. Mr. Jackson's Murder. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 9

Thirty arrests have been made in Nasilk, Bombay, in connection with the recent murder of Mr. Jackson. The accused are mostly Brahmins…

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